Reagan's Landslide Victory A State-by-State Breakdown

Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981 with strongly conservative values but experience in moderate politics. This page provides an overview of presidential election results by state in each election held between 1900 and 2024. Ronald Reagan, originally an American actor and politician, became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989. In the past 74 years, California has chosen a Republican for president as many times as it has a Democrat. The longest Republican droughts in winning electoral votes are in six states since the 1984 election: Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, ... In the 1980 United States presidential election, Ronald Reagan and his running mate, George H. W. Bush, were elected president and vice president, ... A common view is that a president's popular mandate, as measured by the size of his margins of victory in the popular and electoral vote, predicts the ... Walter Mondale nearly lost his home state to Ronald Reagan in what turned out to be one of the biggest electoral and popular vote landsides ... Republican former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide, winning 489 electoral votes and 44 ... American presidential election held on November 4, 1980, in which Republican Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic Pres. Jimmy Carter.